Swiggy

The company is doing well, and the tech team, under the new director of engineering, is heading in the right direction. His vision is great, and his energy to get things done is enormous.

The tech team is young and very friendly, at least at the mid-senior level.

Unfortunately, the DevOps team is not under the umbrella of the new Director of Engineering and still resides under the CTO.

The CTO is really, really immature, both tech-wise and maturity-wise.

The initial DevOps team was great and self-sustaining, but when a new VP joined, it went totally haywire. The CTO did nothing but add fuel to the fire.

To understand the impact, imagine a team of 14 DevOps engineers working for a Unicorn startup in India, all have left, and the company is trying desperately to hire new ones.

There was a quick succession of top DevOps managers leaving the company too.

It's impossible to talk maturely or roll out new ideas under them.

Perk-wise, the company is very much behind, even compared to new startups like CureFit, Instamojo, etc.

The quality of food is sub-optimal, and you need to pay for it.

There is a lot, lot of politics at the VP and higher management level. New ideas get stuck there and keep going round and round as things don't move smoothly at the higher level.

So, basically, you join with the energy of working for a startup and getting new things done but face the politics of MNCs and feel frustrated.

Also, it comes to the individual that, at the end of the day, they did not deliver.

Please move all teams under the directory of engineering, as he is the only sensible top management person who can rudder this boat. Though it might sound harsh, it's time you let go of the CTO, as there is no real value add. His name is also pretty tarnished outside Swiggy as an immature and technologically inept person. This is going to really hurt in the long run.